So I’ll be running my rig under two conditions. I’ll be testing checking the temperature during an idle load, with the computer running as it normally would, and again under full load, after about half an hour to forty-five minutes of gaming. Seems like a real world testing scenario to me, and it gives me a reason to play games without my girlfriend yelling at me to do the dishes or taking those yapping dogs out. There is a method to my madness.
I ran my rig for half an hour under idle conditions with nothing running but the background applications such as my anti-virus. When time was up, I checked to see what the final verdict was. I was clocking a steady 35.9 degrees Celsius. Not the best temperature I’ve ever seen, but not the worst compared to some of the gigantic heatsinks I’ve reviewed before. It’s crazy how they’re making heatsinks bigger and bigger and at the same time making them do less and less.
Performance chart comparing HPK-10025EA to other heatsinks
Now it’s time for my favorite part. I get to game for a while. After a good hour or so of Farmville, I was all set. Just kidding, I would never play that crap. I put some time into Fallout 3 and then checked the temperature to see what kind of results I had. The highest average temperature was al verdict was 60.4 degrees Celsius.
When we compare these temperatures to other heatsink results on the same processor, there are some major fluctuations. The Tranformer 4 got 36.3 degrees Celsius on idle load, while the stock Intel that I originally had on it was getting around 43 degree Celsius. From there the variations became more apparent. On the load test, the Transformer 4 was getting 60.1 degrees Celsius, while the stock Intel was getting a brain-melting 68 degrees Celsius. That’s over 150 degrees Fahrenheit. And you stock-loving jerks are submitting your CPUs to this torture? You should all be drawn and quartered. We tested a few other midrange heatsinks we had in the lab of similar size and weight, and they all performed pretty much the same.
On the next page we render our verdict…
